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General provisions
R. 1 - Written proceedings
R. 2 - Filing of and formal requirements for documents
R. 3 - Language in written proceedings
R. 4 - Language in oral proceedings
R. 5 - Certification of translations
R. 6 - Filing of translations and reduction of fees
R. 7 - Legal authenticity of the translation of the European patent application
Organisation of the European Patent Office - General matters
R. 8 - Patent classification
R. 9 - Administrative structure of the European Patent Office
R. 10 - Responsibility of the Receiving Section and the Examining Division
R. 11 - Allocation of duties to the departments of first instance
Organisation of the European Patent Office - Organisation of the Boards of Appeal and the Enlarged Board of Appeal
R. 12 - Presidium of the Boards of Appeal
R. 13 - Business distribution scheme for the Enlarged Board of Appeal and adoption of its Rules of Procedure
Procedure where the applicant is not entitled
R. 14 - Stay of proceedings
R. 15 - Limitation on withdrawals
R. 16 - Procedure under Article 61, paragraph 1
R. 17 - Filing of a new European patent application by the entitled person
R. 18 - Partial transfer of the right to the European patent
Mention of the inventor
R. 19 - Designation of the inventor
R. 20 - Publication of the mention of the inventor
R. 21 - Rectification of the designation of an inventor
Registration of transfers, licences and other rights
R. 22 - Registration of transfers
R. 23 - Registration of licences and other rights
R. 24 - Special entries for licence registrations
Certificate of exhibition
R. 25 - Certificate of exhibition
Biotechnological inventions
R. 26 - General and definitions
R. 27 - Patentable biotechnological inventions
R. 28 - Exceptions to patentability
R. 29 - The human body and its elements
R. 30 - Requirements of European patent applications relating to nucleotide and amino acid sequences
R. 31 - Deposit of biological material
R. 32 - Expert solution
R. 33 - Availability of biological material
R. 34 - New deposit of biological material
Filing of the European patent application
R. 35 - General provisions
R. 36 - European divisional applications
R. 37 - Forwarding of European patent applications
R. 38 - Filing fee and search fee
R. 39 - Designation Fees
R. 40 - Date of filing
Provisions governing the application
R. 41 - Request for grant
R. 42 - Content of the description
R. 43 - Form and content of claims
R. 44 - Unity of invention
R. 45 - Claims incurring fees
R. 46 - Form of the drawings
R.47 - Form and content of the abstract
R.48 - Prohibited matter
R. 49 - General provisions governing the presentation of the application documents
R. 50 - Documents filed subsequently
Renewal fees
R. 51 - Payment of renewal fees
Priority
R. 52 - Declaration of priority
R. 53 - Priority documents
R. 54 - Issuing priority documents
Examination by the Receiving Section
R. 55 - Examination on filing
R. 56 - Missing parts of the description or missing drawings
R. 57 - Examination as to formal requirements
R. 58 - Correction of deficiencies in the application documents
R. 59 - Deficiencies in claiming priority
R. 60 - Subsequent designation of the inventor
European search report
R. 61 - Content of the European search report
R. 62 - Extended European search report
R. 62a - Applications containing a plurality of independent claims
R. 63 - Incomplete search
R. 64 - European search report where the invention lacks unity
R. 65 - Transmittal of the European search report
R. 66 - Definitive content of the abstract
Publication of the European patent application
R. 67 - Technical preparations for publication
R. 68 - Form of the publication of European patent applications and European search reports
R. 69 - Information about publication
R. 70 - Request for examination
Examination by the Examining Division
R. 70a - Response to the extended European search report
R. 70b - Request for a copy of search results
R. 71 - Examination procedure
R. 71a - Conclusion of the grant procedure
R. 72 - Grant of the European patent to different applicants
The European patent specification
R. 73 - Content and form of the specification
R. 74 - Certificate for a European patent
Opposition procedure
R. 75 - Surrender or lapse of the patent
R. 76 - Form and content of the opposition
R. 77 - Rejection of the opposition as inadmissible
R. 78 - Procedure where the proprietor of the patent is not entitled
R. 79 - Preparation of the examination of the opposition
R. 80 - Amendment of the European patent
R. 81 - Examination of opposition
R. 82 - Maintenance of the European patent in amended form
R. 83 - Request for documents
R. 84 - Continuation of the opposition proceedings by the European Patent Office of its own motion
R. 85 - Transfer of the European patent
R. 86 - Documents in opposition proceedings
R. 87 - Content and form of the new specification of the European patent
R. 88 - Costs
R. 89 - Intervention of the assumed infringer
Procedure for limitation or revocation
R. 90 - Subject of proceedings
R. 91 - Responsibility for proceedings
R. 92 - Requirements of the request
R. 93 - Precedence of opposition proceedings
R. 94 - Rejection of the request as inadmissible
R. 95 - Decision on the request
R. 96 - Content and form of the amended European patent specification
Appeals procedure
R. 97 - Appeal against apportionment and fixing of costs
R. 98 - Surrender or lapse of the patent
R. 99 - Content of the notice of appeal and the statement of grounds
R. 100 - Examination of appeals
R. 101 - Rejection of the appeal as inadmissible
R. 102 - Form of decision of the Board of Appeal
R. 103 - Reimbursement of appeal fees
Petitions for review by the Enlarged Board of Appeal
R. 104 - Further fundamental procedural defects
R. 105 - Criminal acts
R. 106 - Obligation to raise objections
R. 107 - Contents of the petition for review
R. 108 - Examination of the petition
R. 109 - Procedure in dealing with petitions for review
R. 110 - Reimbursement of the fee for petitions for review
Decisions and communications of the European Patent Office
R. 111 - Form of decisions
R. 112 - Noting of loss of rights
R. 113 - Signature, name, seal
Observations by third parties
R. 114 - Observations by third parties
Oral proceedings and taking of evidence
R.115 - Summons to oral proceedings
R.116 - Preparation of oral proceedings
R. 117 - Decision on taking of evidence
R. 118 - Summons to give evidence before the European Patent Office
R. 119 - Examination of evidence before the European Patent Office
R. 120 - Hearing by a competent national court
R. 121 - Commissioning of experts
R. 122 - Costs of taking of evidence
R. 123 - Conservation of evidence
R. 124 - Minutes of oral proceedings and of taking of evidence
Notifications
R. 125 - General provisions
R. 126 - Notification by post
R. 127 - Notification by technical means of communication
R. 128 - Notification by delivery by hand
R. 129 - Public notification
R. 130 - Notification to representatives
Time limits
R. 131 - Calculation of periods
R. 132 - Periods specified by the European Patent Office
R. 133 - Late receipt of documents
R. 134 - Extension of periods
R. 135 - Further processing
R. 136 - Re-establishment of rights
Amendments and corrections
R. 137 - Amendment of the European patent application
R. 138 - Different claims, description and drawings for different States
R. 139 - Correction of errors in documents filed with the European Patent Office
R. 140 - Correction of errors in decisions
Information on prior art
R. 141 - Information on prior art
Interruption of proceedings
R. 142 - Interruption of proceedings
Information to the public
R. 143 - Entries in the European Patent Register
R. 144 - Parts of the file excluded from inspection
R. 145 - Procedures for the inspection of files
R. 146 - Communication of information contained in the files
R. 147 - Constitution, maintenance and preservation of files
Legal and administrative co-operation
R. 148 - Communications between the European Patent Office and the authorities of the Contracting States
R. 149 - Inspection of files by or via courts or authorities of the Contracting States
R. 150 - Procedure for letters rogatory
Representation
R. 151 - Appointment of a common representative
R. 152 - Authorisations
R. 153 - Attorney-client evidentiary privilege
R. 154 - Amendment of the list of professional representatives
Conversion into a national patent application
R. 155 - Filing and transmission of the request for conversion
R. 156 - Information to the public in the event of conversion
INTERNATIONAL APPLICATIONS UNDER THE PATENT COOPERATION TREATY - EURO-PCT APPLICATIONS
R. 157 - The European Patent Office as a receiving Office
R. 158 - The European Patent Office as an International Searching Authority or International Preliminary Examining Authority
R. 159 - The European Patent Office as a designated or elected Office - Requirements for entry into the European phase
R. 160 - Consequences of non-fulfilment of certain requirements
R. 161 - Amendment of the application
R. 162 - Claims incurring fees
R. 163 - Examination of certain formal requirements by the European Patent Office
R. 164 - Consideration of unity by the European Patent Office
R. 165 - The Euro-PCT application as conflicting application under Article 54, paragraph 3